[NIFI-391] Need ability to deprecate components

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: Core Framework, Core UI, Extensions
• Assignee: Andre F de Miranda
• Reporter: Mark Payne
• Created: 02/Mar/15 14:56
• Updated: 27/Aug/18 14:46
• Resolved: 15/May/17 13:06

Description

The API should allow processors to be marked as deprecated such that the UI then shows on the graph that the Processor is deprecated.

Additionally, the UI should show in the Status Bar that there are deprecated components (processors, reporting tasks, controller services) in the flow.

This valuable because of improvements such as NIFI-377. In this case, we have a community member making the Base64EncodeContent processor more generic so that it can encode/decode base 16,32, and 64. At this point, Base64EncodeContent doesn't make sense as a name, so there is a more generic EncodeContent processor. We don't need both, so we want to deprecated the Base64EncodeContent processor.

Issue Links

• contains: NIFI-439 Documentation should reflect that a component has been deprecated
• relates to: NIFI-5555 Add visual indicators for deprecated components
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1718

Sub-Tasks

• Documentation should reflect that a component has been deprecated: Resolved